Warm bitter coffee tastes best before the lights are on When silence lies immobile Breath less Earthbound lightning stoking the heart to...

The meandering and branching paths Of forests deep and dense Make comedy of destiny and fate I turn around to find again A path not...

Ash bows long from the end of a cigarette Memorial to deep breaths and momentous moris Softly, slowly, still Lest it drift aways with the...

The memory of your blossom was so bright in me I would not see that spring had passed and we had become seeds beholden to the wind...

There has been a place in my heart A wind between the stars I sought To rhythmic pilgrim's need And found a music made, in fact To adorn...

Winter is so long in longing All fae paths unseely To dream, surely Perchance to sleep Weeping over the fading warmth what remains of...

You left one day and I carried your pieces for miles Setting them down one by one No one tells you how heavy freedom can feel I stand...

Too often by half Do the mountains wish they were waves And rivers that they could stand still Loving what isn't And all they are not The...

I think I thought that Grieving the couldhavebeens made them real Made me true But letting go brought such music to those memories And...

Oh but maybe it was always a dance Chaotic abandon No passing note grieved May be the only sin is stillness

I was born in a house haunted Ghosts stalked the corners and halls Of course, I was too small Too knew To know what they were All those...

It feels a cruel joke how beauty silences me and pain demands a name Straining to hold those moments longer But words are a violence and...

I wish you had me when I was whole strange thoughts You gave me the needle and thread I stitched me together in time If only you could...

It's the nights that are the hardest, With the sky held back by city lights Shivering soul straining to leave this body's heavy grasp But...

Arose Soul naked and bared Shaking in the stark light And though you looked away I remained And saw myself for the first time

I hold gently now and speak softly. I laugh often and make light in every word because it was not always so. I was true once, And I...

All those adolescent prayers for peace, strength in solitude... The months pass without a word of farewell, no longer kissing goodnight....

All of it is so much banality. But some tore the stars from my sky and I will not let them go

"Don't say that. I love you." "Ok" "Ok? What does that even mean, ok?" "It means I accept, I guess. I don't want to argue" "You don't...

You always ask permission To call in the night safeguarding sleep, you say As if I don't carry every moment in my heart As if I don't...